WWE’s latest pay-per-view (PPV), Crown Jewel, will be broadcast live today (Sat, November 5, 2022) from Msool Park in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, starting at 12:00 p.m. ET peacock (in the US) and WWE Network (everywhere else).
CagesideSeats.com will provide LIVE blow-by-blow, match-by-match coverage of crown jewel below, starting with the first game of the night through to the main event.
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WWE CROWN JEWEL FAST RESULTS
- WWE Universal Championship: Roman Reigns (c) vs. Logan Paul
- Raw Women’s Championship Last Woman Standing: Bianca Belair (c) vs. Bayley
- Tag Team Championship: The Usos (c) vs. Ridge Holland & BUTCH
- Braun Strowman vs. Omos
- The OK vs. Judgment Day
- steel cage: Drew McIntyre def. Karion Kross
- Tag Team Championship: damage CTRL def. Alexa Bliss & Asuka (c)
- Brock Lesnar def. Bobby Lashley
WWE CROWN JEWEL LIVE BLOG & MATCH COVERAGE
No lyrics today. As is my standard practice on these shows, I will use my platform here to express my dissatisfaction with WWE’s relationship with Saudi Arabia. More specifically, due to my nature as a queer polyamorous trans woman, Saudi Arabia is, uh… not very friendly to people like meand so sometimes it really sucks to see the WWE acting as a propaganda arm for this regime.
It was only by accident, through the coincidental details of my birth, to a family that supports me, in a country that (despite increasing transphobia in the media) that fundamentally supports my right to exist, that I was able to be the woman I am to find love with my beautiful wife and beautiful girlfriends and it breaks my heart to think of my brothers, sisters and nonbinary siblings who weren’t so lucky.
Additionally, adding stress is that the Kingdom Holding Company (effectively owned by Prince Alwaleed) now owns approximately 4% of Twitter. Twitter has long been a community hub for queer people, and the transgender community in particular, and it’s where I met my wife and partners. Dealing with the knowledge that interests so openly hostile to our existence will now influence such a large social media platform is intimidating, to say the least. (Thanks to my gorgeous wife for the last tip – I wanted to say more today but ran out of time because those Saturday afternoon shows are throwing my timing off with my routine.)
But as always, I refuse to sit back and abandon my colleagues here at Cageside Seats, who have played such a big part in making me feel comfortable being out and proud as the woman I am (and not the Having trouble calling WWE’s Saudi deal off for That’s it), high and dry so I’m blogging the show live.
On with the show!
The show begins with Titus O’Neil narrating a video pack about how awesome Crown Jewel is.
Bobby Lashley vs. Brock Lesnar
Lashley with an early flash knocking Lesnar to the ground and hurting his knee, throwing him around the ring, back in, a spear… NO! Hurt lock turned into a German suplex, another German suplex, the F-5… STILL NO! Bob comes back, sends him back to the ground, carries the fireman and he puts the beast in the ring post!
Back inside, Hurt Lock set in the middle of the ring, Lesnar clawing at the turnbuckles…
Brock Lesnar wins via pinfall, reversing the hurt lock into a pin.
After the match, Lashley puts Brock in the hurt lock again and chokes him to a more vivid shade of purple than usual.
We get a video package from Liv Morgan.
Alexa Bliss and Asuka are interviewed backstage by Byron Saxton, who is wearing an incredibly loud Transformers Generation 2 color suit. Bliss says you can’t put them on the shelf for a few weeks and get rid of them, that’s months of retribution beating Damage CTRL.
Alexa Bliss & Asuka (c) vs. Damage CTRL (Dakota Kai & IYO SKY) (WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship)
Bliss and Kai begin, Dakota takes control with an armbar, whip in the corner, up and down, Alexa wants more! In the corner, elbows up, in the turnbuckles, struggling for position, arm pull reversed to a pin, cover for two. Kai swaps fast pins in vain and smacks her in the face!
Whip flipped, drop down works for once, but Dakota gets them on the ropes and makes the day. SKY wants a slam, Bliss floats over and tags! Circling off the ropes, IYO with a lasso, Asuka returns the favor with a shoulder block and tag out. Double suplex, SKY lands on their feet but the Babyface team hit a bulldog/facebreaker combo for two!
Tag to Kai, dropkick cuts them off, Asuka switches in, hits Damage CTRL off the ropes, stereo baseball slides follow! Back inside, Dakota holds the working leg, transitions to IYO, dragon bolt connects, and Asuka is miserable! Switch to bliss, come in hot, fight two for one, palm punches and kicks, double dropkick lays them out!
SKY with a backbreaker, Alexa stops her going upstairs and knocks her down to set up a Yoshi Tonic… NOPE! At the top, struggling for position, all four women involved… TOWER OF DOOM! Asuka legal, missile dropkick on Kai, Uraken after Uraken, kick combo, codebreaker, bridging German suplex!
Twisted bliss, knees up, the match collapses, Asuka dodges an Asai moonsault and smashes the ringer! Alexa with a DDT, above, Nikki Cross runs in and brings her down with referee Aja Perera cast and DDT hanging from the top! Dock with cover…
Damage CTRL wins the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship by pinfalling Alexa Bliss with a side press from Dakota Kai.
We get a video package from Becky Lynch.
We see Logan Paul come into the arena and talk about how he’s going to win tonight.
Drew McIntyre vs. Karrion Kross (Steel Cage Match)
McIntyre ducks a lasso and comes right in with his own punches, Kross gets some licks in, whip reversed, front kick and a lasso and Drew knocks him off his feet! Slaps and smacks on the ropes, big back suplex and McIntyre cheers! Karrion with a neck kick trying to climb out while Drew gasps but he gets cut off!
Kross flips the tide back onto the floor, trades chops with McIntyre, smashes his face into the cage wall and chokes him in the corner! Drew explodes with Lariats, a belly to belly suplex that slams Karrion into the steel! Kross comes under him, swims over, in the cage, rear elbow, McIntyre hits the Michinoku driver for two!
At the top, struggling for position, Drew with the spider belly-to-belly superplex! Karrion recovers, pulls him up, but McIntyre slams him into the steel first and follows up with a spinebuster, jackknife pin…NOPE! THE CROSS JACKET IS IN, BUT HAS MADE IT ITS OWN BEDROOM!
McIntyre follows him with a quick DDT, kip-up, countdown, but Scarlett is on the cage to cause disruption! Kross with the sleeper, he didn’t have his arm pinched and Drew can ram it in the cage! Northern Elbow puts McIntyre down, Karrion turns around before deciding to climb into the cage, but Drew wakes up and climbs in after him!
Scarlett opens the door for her guy to go through, but when Drew interrupts and knocks him out, she hits him, shuts it, locks it and takes away the key! McIntyre climbs up as she tries to unlock the door and let Karrion crawl out…
Drew McIntyre wins by escaping the cage.
We see Roman Reigns and the Bloodline arrive in the arena, minus Sami Zayn.
Reigns refuses to answer a question about Logan’s “Lucky Punch,” and Solo Sikoa goes to see Byron Saxton afterwards. Paul Heyman walks in and pokes fun at the lucky punch idea.